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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
But regular beer tastes like piss.
I assume that's what people want when they order a regular beer, otherwise they'd buy an IPA or similar, no?
In the olden days 'regular' beer actually had a distinctive taste that was not urine-like. But what would be a complete shock to youngsters now, is that different brands had :gasp: different taste. You could tell what brand you were drinking without looking at the bottle. I shit you not. Hard to believe, I know.
Then came the dark times of horse piss gleichschaltung. And all would be lost, taps in bars could be as well exchanged for urinals, but fortunately craft came to the rescue with IPAs, sours, lambics and waizens (those are disgusting actually).
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@MrL and somebody enough pissants and pussyfarts will die off to restore the bock markets.
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@Gribnit I've eaten a few good doppelbocks before. They're around if you ask for them.
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@TimeBandit In fact why don't we skip the inconvenient steps between the factory and the junkyard entirely?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit In fact why don't we skip the inconvenient steps between the factory and the junkyard entirely?
Because people are going to pay for it.
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Integrated into OS and forced upon users of that OS.
It'll do.
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@DogsB I said it before, I'll say it again: Safari not supporting the latest shit Google farted up 12 hours ago so it doesn't run on your 3 hour old hipster-JS framework is a feature, not a bug.
And no, I don't need websites being able to connect with a box of cereal in the supermarket via bluetooth, or whatever API they're constantly dreaming up.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit In fact why don't we skip the inconvenient steps between the factory and the junkyard entirely?
Because people are going to pay for it.
People not paying for it is the premise of the whole thing.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
I don't need websites being able to connect with a box of cereal in the supermarket via bluetooth
Why are you opposed to progress?
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NASA succesfully tested a weight-loss program for asteroids: Dimorphos lost about 1 million kilograms!
That should add extra motivation to our dieters on WDTWTF.
On the other hand, its weight was 4.3 billion kg before, which means that a million is close to nothing.
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As part of the KDP Select agreement, authors promise to make digital versions of their books exclusive to Amazon. This makes sense, as it comes with various perks. However, this rule doesn’t only apply to competing stores, pirate sites are included as well.
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"Pirate Sites" looks like "Parasites" at a glance and now I can't unsee.
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I feel the weebs are involved in this somehow.
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excited Doc Oc noises
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The first comment on the announcement is from a Vivaldi user who had 742 tabs open at that point. It's probably more by now.
A wild @HardwareGeek has been spotted.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I feel the weebs are involved in this somehow.
https://youtube.com/embed/8oE54GSVxUQ?start=16&end=62
If video games are to be taken seriously as art, then it has to start asking big philosophical questions, and not just, "What does the princess see in Bowser's thorny, proletarian cock?" But it's Deus Ex that's leading the pack on this one. The first Deus Ex tackled the philosophical quandary of whether it's possible to wear a trenchcoat and sunglasses without looking like a ponce, but Deus Ex: Human Revolution centralizes the debate surrounding transhuman augmentation. "Would you", it asks, "supplement your body with machinery?" (beat) What do you mean, "would I"? I already wear spectacles. And a wristwatch. And I always carry a phone, which I'm currently in the process of duct-taping to the side of my head. Anyone who talks about technological development being "unnatural" deserves to be abandoned in the wilderness wearing nothing but a fig leaf. But even if I weren't biased, if there's a conflict growing between a group of people with ocean liner pistons for forearms and a group of people who insist that everyone should be forced to be as shit as they are, I know which side I'd rather be on.
Hey, I've got a better name for the pro-humanity movement: The Sore Losers' Club!
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@DogsB Soon?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Sounds like they were getting ahead of the inevitable ICC action.
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@Applied-Mediocrity okay. But you won't like it.
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@TimeBandit An attempted carjacking of my niece's car was thwarted because they didn't know how to drive a stick.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit An attempted carjacking of my niece's car was thwarted because they didn't know how to drive a stick.
Up next: a security lock that requires you to enter a passphrase by writing it on a touch screen in cursive.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit An attempted carjacking of my niece's car was thwarted because they didn't know how to drive a stick.
Up next: a security lock that requires you to enter a passphrase by writing it on a touch screen in cursive.
Considering how much "fun" it is to write on a touch screen, that will even thwart those who know cursive. (But that's still better than trying to write cursive with a mouse.)
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit An attempted carjacking of my niece's car was thwarted because they didn't know how to drive a stick.
Up next: a security lock that requires you to enter a passphrase by writing it on a touch screen in cursive.
Considering how much "fun" it is to write on a touch screen, that will even thwart those who know cursive. (But that's still better than trying to write cursive with a mouse.)
Mouse nothing. Try a trackball.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Two levers to for maximum confusion
I really need to take a picture of my dads old ford tractor.
It's got 1 gear stick, one stick for 4wd, 2wd high, 2wd low and one / just for gears.
Then there are the multitudes of levers for the front loader and front tools, and rear tools and all the other crap. In total I think there's something like 10 levers in there.
And lets not forget that the brake pedals are split left/right so you can brake turn, and there is both a throttle lever and a gas pedal.Modern tractors are even worse, because everything is buttons, joysticks and touchscreens. And the functions buttons shift depending on which buttons you have pressed or are pressing, or the speed you are going or what tools you have attached or... Jeez...
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@Gribnit Of course I won't. I'm a WTDWTF regular. The sentiment is universal.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit An attempted carjacking of my niece's car was thwarted because they didn't know how to drive a stick.
Up next: a security lock that requires you to enter a passphrase by writing it on a touch screen in cursive.
Considering how much "fun" it is to write on a touch screen, that will even thwart those who know cursive. (But that's still better than trying to write cursive with a mouse.)
Mouse nothing. Try a trackball.
That's easy. Simply define your finger as the pen and write inside-out.
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Among the artifacts discovered in the BlackLotus code there are references to the Higurashi When They Cry anime series
Fucking weeb.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I just realized that everybody missed . Yes, besides Ford and besides cars driving themselves to the junkyard.
The Real WTF is that they want to patent this. Okay, so everybody's missed it because they're already so used to it, but still: this is a shitty business model, not an invention. There is absolutely nothing in there that's patent-worthy.
Or if there is, I'm going to patent: Self driving car driving to work. Self driving car driving to the supermarket. Self-driving car driving to your gym, park, doctor or church. License them individually or in bulk. Get any of them and you'll get "self-driving car driving home" at 50% off. Oh, and good luck trying to sell your self-driving car to customers without these highly innovative features.Fuck, this is stupid. Now pay me money!
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Proving the old joke correct. No lawyers have died from this yet.
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@DogsB
Hypochondriac status: new fear acquired
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@topspin For your viewing pleasure:
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Well, a lot of people around here are about to be jobless soon.
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No. I’ve already spent €700 on a phone that doesn't notify me when people call me.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
spent €700 on a phone that doesn't notify me when people call me.
So... totally worth it?
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@DogsB Reinforcing my belief that most people involved in the selection of candidates are not very good at it.
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@DogsB eh, just the other day I read the opposite, that people notice (unconcsciously?) fake smiles, they look insincere and rather hurt than help you.
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@topspin Hide the pain, Harold.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB
Hypochondriac status: new fear acquiredCan I make you aware of mucormycosis? It's the only contagious disease with a 100% mortality rate, dontcher know.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I’ve already spent €700 on a phone that doesn't notify me when people call me.
I've got one of those, but it only cost me about $400 — about 6 years ago, so with inflation, yeah, €700 is probably about right.
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GOP politicians in a number of states would like to ban dressing in drag altogether.
I wonder if this includes all those bearded men dressed as the Statue of Liberty standing on street corners to advertise tax preparers.
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I'd go without rather than drink star bucks.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'd go without rather than drink star bucks.
Around here we have Starbucks, Nero (joined with Coffe Green, so it's actually Green Nero) and Costa.
Starbucks is shitty tasteless dishwater.
Costa was very good some years ago, but then went through 'reorganization' and now it's simply undrinkable. I'd rather have instant Nescafe, or possibly battery acid, than this.
Green Nero is, surprisingly, very very good. So good that I buy their coffee for home use.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
Starbucks is shitty tasteless dishwater.
My experience with them was that their espresso-based drinks (except for straight espresso, which was OK) were severely disappointing, and their filter coffee was only OK if obtained at the absolute peak of business as it was otherwise definitely stewed. It wasn't a problem for me though.
I don't put milk or cream in coffee. I never really have done either.